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Sujet: Ikarus Meteor 57 |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 17/01/2026 17:26 Sujet: Ikarus Meteor 57 |
Hello Pat,
Congratulations with your first flights
It surely looks great (and it is also great!)
Regards,
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 09/01/2026 14:35 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Hello Sebastian,
Yes I tried the "PVA ironing" method on my King Kite, it works well (with thin ply). But I guess I was in the cyano glueing mood
It surely was a remarkable gli ... |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 09/01/2026 11:49 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Bonjour a tous,
Now I had to sheet the upper half. I found that quite difficult, especially applying pressure on the glue. Finally, with a few drops of cyano, I glued 3 X 3 slats onto a prepared p ... |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 31/12/2025 09:45 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Hello Sebastian,
You are right about the weather! .
I surely go on building, I guess you do the same!
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 30/12/2025 15:49 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Hello everyone,
What I always find difficult with building is that one thing has to be done first, and then another, and sometimes that's a puzzle.
To make the skeg, I had to sheet the fuselage, ... |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 20/12/2025 19:47 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Oui Sebastian, cést vraiment développable
Amicalemant,
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 20/12/2025 19:45 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Danke Thomas
Grusse,
Vincent(DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 20/12/2025 17:04 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Danke Thomas,
Ich bin erstaunt . Schone bilder, da kann Ich doch die Cockpit Haube gut machen!
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 20/12/2025 13:58 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Bonjour a tous,
I went on with the fuselage, the two stringers on sides are on the construction level so on the 10 x 10 mm slats. With these stringers in place and the center of the formers on the ... |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 14/12/2025 16:55 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Hi Sebastian,
Thanks and yes it is nice software, it took me some time to work with it
Cheers,
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 14/12/2025 12:27 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Bonjour a tous,
I went on with the fuselage
I drew the fuselage (some time ago already) using Devfus. I have already drawn a few fuselages with this programme, but this one was a bit different b ... |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 03/12/2025 23:04 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Merci Sebastian pour ton comments.
Et oui, j' aime la forme des empanages aussi!
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 03/12/2025 14:13 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Bonjour a tous,
As I planned, I started with the stabilizer and the vertical stabilizer at the same time.
There aren't many drawings of the Hjordis; Buxton left many details that had to be wo ... |
Sujet: Slingsby King Kite 1/4 |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 19/11/2025 19:44 Sujet: Slingsby King Kite 1/4 |
Bonjour a tous,,
Thomas a trouve dans tes archives de le Wasserkuppe Segelflugmuseum des nouveau photo's de la Slingsby King Kite;
http://www.retroplane.net/forum/images/uploads/bocorvin/KK1__Aa ... |
Sujet: ANNIVERSAIRES - GEBURTSTAGE |
bocorvin
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Forum: Divers... Posté le: 15/11/2025 16:09 Sujet: ANNIVERSAIRES - GEBURTSTAGE |
A bit late Vincent, sorry,
Happy birthdag
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 05/11/2025 20:21 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Vincent et Sebastian,
Merci pour votre reaction aimable (nice words)
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 05/11/2025 15:04 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Hello everyone,
Why a new glider? I enjoy building, but also because I had some tense moments with slope flying, trying not to land down the slope. Changes to our field had also made towing more di ... |
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Forum: Divers... Posté le: 01/11/2025 12:17 Sujet: ANNIVERSAIRES - GEBURTSTAGE |
Hello Sebastian,
Happy birthday and lots of creative builds!
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 20/10/2025 18:11 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Danke Johannes
Der tekst war auf English, Ich war nicht der Flieger, nur ein kurze Zeit. Um klar zu sein habe Ich das ubersetzt mit hilfe von translate;
Gestern machte die Austria ihren maid ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 20/10/2025 15:27 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Hi Sebastian,
You saw that well, yes I was very happy; it flew well, everything functioned, the CG was OK and the footage was OK!
And there is room in my workshop
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 20/10/2025 10:49 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Hello everyone,
Yesterday the Austria made its maiden, flown by Raymond, who did the first 70% of the build. He wrote the following on the Dutch forum:
Translated with help of Deeptranslate L
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Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 14/10/2025 19:07 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Danke Thomas
LG
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 14/10/2025 10:10 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Hi Sebastian,
Yes, it is quite a lot of lead, almost all my lead supply went into the Ku-4!!
Because the rudders are hard to actuate with rods or wires without to much hysteresis, Raymond put 3 ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 13/10/2025 14:38 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
I looked for the necessary lead I needed 850 gr, 90 grams of which I put separately in a plastic jar, so that I could take it out if necessary. I fixed the rest with epoxy with filler.
http://www. ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 04/10/2025 21:37 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Hello Sebastian,
Thanks for your nice comments .
The balsa is covered with 25gr/m2 glas fabric & epoxy. Rhat gave a irrigular surface . I used a filler (enduit) acrylic Rapide fro ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 04/10/2025 19:01 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
| After sheeting the rudders with Diacov, I wanted to organise the nose of the fuselage with the battery and ballast. The battery didn't quite fit behind the nose block, so I placed it one frame backwar ... |
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Forum: Divers... Posté le: 19/09/2025 15:51 Sujet: ANNIVERSAIRES - GEBURTSTAGE |
Hallo Ulli,
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu deinem Geburtstag (je verjaardag ) von mir und auch von Jenny,
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
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Forum: Constructions Métalliques - Stahlrohrkonstruktion Posté le: 17/09/2025 12:17 Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
Bonjour Sebastian,
Thanks for your comment
It is a bit confusing, the video is a combined one with all the footage I had. So the first flight is again in this video. I already made a new co ... |
Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
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Forum: Constructions Métalliques - Stahlrohrkonstruktion Posté le: 16/09/2025 10:16 Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
It took a while, but more flight(s) have been made.
To refresh what happened, the very first tow went up well, unfortunately the (scale) coupling did not disconnect properly resulting in a hard lan ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 05/09/2025 11:09 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
| Wih the fins and rudders I had to make a choice. In the FMT drawings, the fins and rudders are flat plates constructed from balsa wood. On the 1:2 model and the original, they are fabric-covered struc ... |
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